"My heart was full of a thousand conflicting emotions."

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."

"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"

"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."

"If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion."